Holds back
Niche: Gaming
$0.80 to $5 per 1,000 views
$0typical $2$10
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $2 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Alan Becker
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$62,500a month
About $750,000 a year, likely $425,000 to $1.18M
Low end$35,400
Most likely$62,500
High end$98,200
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$62,200a month
- Long videos26.4M views a month$61,30099%
- Shorts6.9M views a month$9051%
- Live streams7,271 views a month$160%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$179,000 to $671,000Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 22,376,464 views per long video and typical sponsor rates for this niche.
Views per video
The last 30 public uploads, oldest on the left. Tap or hover a bar for the video.
Long videosShorts
020M40M
Median 16.8M
May 31Nov 7
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Dark Age - Animator vs. Animation 14 | Long video | Nov 7 | 11,189,808 |
| Creeper Clan - Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Ep 40 | Long video | Aug 29 | 25,654,190 |
| Animation vs. Geometry Dash | Long video | Jul 18 | 16,748,394 |
| The Machine - Animator vs. Animation 13 | Long video | May 30 | 23,731,287 |
| The Aether - Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Ep 39 | Long video | Apr 18 | 17,872,856 |
| Would you look at that... | Short | Mar 21 | 4,797,288 |
| Trial Chamber - An Actual Short | Short | Jan 24 | 7,114,527 |
| An Actual Short Compilation - Season 3 (official) | Long video | Jan 24 | 10,000,303 |
| Mission Impossible - An Actual Short | Short | Jan 10 | 13,727,362 |
| How To: Survive A Fall - An Actual Short | Short | Dec 27 | 8,371,071 |
| The Far Lands - Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Ep 38 | Long video | Dec 20 | 28,024,656 |
| Introducing... | Short | Dec 6 | 9,545,779 |
| Egg - An Actual Short | Short | Nov 22 | 7,841,755 |
| Animation vs. Game Design | Long video | Nov 15 | 12,723,370 |
| Allay - An Actual Short | Short | Nov 1 | 6,731,686 |
| How To: Open Doors - An Actual Short | Short | Oct 18 | 18,173,690 |
| Hardcore Manhunt - Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Ep 37 | Long video | Oct 11 | 37,127,116 |
| Walk Cycles - An Actual Short | Short | Oct 4 | 17,507,482 |
| Day & Night - An Actual Short | Short | Sep 20 | 16,948,004 |
| Hacker - Animator vs. Animation 12 | Long video | Sep 13 | 32,869,248 |
| Fork vs Spoon - An Actual Short | Short | Aug 30 | 7,515,667 |
| Fingers - An Actual Short | Short | Aug 16 | 18,518,572 |
| Animation vs. Water - #TeamWater | Long video | Aug 9 | 14,933,190 |
| Couples Discount - An Actual Short | Short | Jul 26 | 16,809,400 |
| Flip The Screen - An Actual Short | Short | Jul 12 | 17,137,124 |
| Beta - Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Ep 0 | Long video | Jul 5 | 12,139,019 |
| Mercenary Tryouts | Long video | Jun 21 | 17,128,481 |
| Block Beats - An Actual Short | Short | Jun 14 | 13,677,840 |
| King Orange's Speedrun - An Actual Short | Short | May 31 | 31,590,617 |
| Speedrun Competition | Long video | May 31 | 20,438,554 |
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What lifts the estimate and what holds it back
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Where viewers likely are
100% of US ad rates
0%US rates
Based on the channel's language and country (English, based in the US). Ads pay far more in the US, UK, Canada and Australia than elsewhere.
Neutral
Shorts in the mix
21% of views this month
Long 79%Shorts 21%
Shorts pay about $0.13 per 1,000 views, a small fraction of long videos, so the same views earn much less.
Holds back
Videos under 8 minutes
median 5 min
0 min8 min mark20 min
Below 8 minutes YouTube only shows ads before and after, so each view pays less.
Neutral
Upload pace: steady
0.16 per week
That is 1x the 90 days before.
Neutral
Views per video are steady
0.89x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Neutral
Old videos still bring views
19.5M views a month
Uploads older than three years keep getting watched. We count them at half their lifetime average pace, a conservative guess, capped by the channel's lifetime average.
Time to monetize
When this channel can earn from YouTube ads
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Unlock with ProHow we got this. Views from the last 30 days are rebuilt from each public video's views and age, cut to the views YouTube pays on, then priced with niche, audience and video length ad rates from published creator data. We run this 2,000 times with realistic variation and show the middle half. Data read November 10, 2026, 09:40 UTC.